Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Amount

$743,258.00

Award Date

6/03/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

A molecular component involved in the pathogenesis of open-angle glaucoma has been identified. Mutations causing ocular hypertension and open-angle glaucoma in some are located to a glaucoma gene on a chromosome 1 locus, GLC1A, that codes for a protein ca